I have two issues to be addressed here, neither of which seem to have been covered. If they have, my apologies.

Firstly, here is my journal, and here is the code I am currently using.

I would love to be able to ask the designer for help, but I posted an inquiry more than a month ago, and there has been no response. It is an Expressive Winter based design, with obviously, quite a few alterations.

1. The user gifs (I think that's what they're called -the little people in front of user-names) keep coming up with half of the gif cut off. I've tried increasing the size allowance, but it doesn't seem to have done any good.

2. If you go to my journal, you'll see I have a pattern in the background, which only goes down about halfway,. Does anyone know how to make it repeat over the whole background? Preferably not moving as you scroll, but I'm not too fussy at this point.

If I've left something out, or anyone can help me, I would love it. I'm not very good at HTML, so I've been pretty much puttering along in the dark, and hoping I don't hit something . . .

You'll have to add the "!important" after the padding in that section and the next two sections (and change the spacing back to the original).

For 2. you can make your background image one screen height, then find the body{} section in the stylesheet. In the background: line, change "repeat-x" to "repeat-y". If you really don't want it to scroll with the window, make the image one screen height and change "repeat-x" to "fixed".

Thank you so much for the help! My bg image is working perfectly now -although I still can't seem to get the people to appear properly. First they came up above the normal LJ user pics -then I used an unchanged css to try again, and they went back to being cut in half *scratches head* HTML is weird . . .